RosettaBooks The Wheel Spins By Ethel Lina White 3.81 Did Mrs. Froy vanish or was she merely a vivid hallucination of Iris Carr? A few stray details suggest that something more sinister is happening. Best known as the basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film The Lady Vanishes, Ethel White’s book The Wheel Spins is a gripping and accomplished work in its own right. Best known as the basis for Alfred HItchcock’s classic film The Lady Vanishes, Ethel White’s book The Wheel Spins is a gripping and accomplished work in its own right. The plot is deceptively simple and the premise is classic: a woman meets a mysterious stranger during a long railway journey. It’s easy to see in this novel what Hitchcock found so compelling and so well-suited to his particular brand of filmmaking. The protagonist of the story is Iris Carr, who suffers a blackout just before boarding a train that is traveling across Europe to London. On board the train, the still-woozy Iris befriends a certain Mrs. Froy, a fellow Englishwoman who is perhaps a bit eccentric but seems to be for the most part agreeable and benign. Mrs.

Froy is the "vanishing lady" of Hitchcock’s title, and it is Mrs. Froy who mysteriously disappears while Iris is napping. Her inexplicable departure throws Iris into a mind-bending mystery that will make her alternately question her sanity and the designs of the people around her. When Iris asks about Mrs. Froy, everyone on board the train denies ever having seen the old woman. Although Iris could perhaps be swayed due to the knock on her head that Mrs. Froy was merely a vivid hallucination, a few stray details suggest that something more sinister is happening, and Iris resolves to get to the bottom of the mystery. s gripping as the plot is, the novel’s true strength is the masterful way in which White builds a brooding and ominous atmosphere that hangs over even the most seemingly ordinary scenes. White has been compared to Edgar Allan Poe, although White also has much in common with Wilkie Collins, Patricia Highsmith, and Mary Higgins Clark. Unlike traditional mystery stories or whodunits which generally open with a crime, White’s novels trade on our anticipation of a future transgression and the eventual explanation of unusual events.

The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White - AbeBooks The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White You Searched For: Results (1 - 30) of 36 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Fontana, 1979. Paperback. Book Condition: AVERAGE. Paperback; English language; a fair reading copy. Your book will be securely packed and promptly dispatched from our UK warehouse. For buyers outside the UK we now offer significantly lower rates on our airmail shipping. Bookseller Inventory # 09125gae034 ISBN 10: 0460125389 ISBN 13: 9780460125383 Used Softcover ISBN 10: 0460125389 ISBN 13: 9780460125383 Used Published by Harmondswoth Middlesex: Penguin (1966) Used Softcover First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Harmondswoth Middlesex: Penguin, 1966. Paperback. 192pp.

First Penguin edition (Penguin number 1104). Very Good condition. Shelf-wear to edges and previous owner's name to top corner of half-title page. Hitchcock's film version of this novel is "The Lady Vanishes". Bookseller Inventory # 10572 ISBN 10: 0460125389 ISBN 13: 9780460125383 Used PAPERBACK Used Soft Cover First Edition Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Penguin, 1955. Paperback. Book Condition: Almost Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st edition rare title in original condition appears unread with no spine crease with minor shelflife to green card covers - name/address on endpaper - text block darkened overall (shelflife) Please see our other Penguin Crime Books - Guaranteed posting 24hrs from St Ives St191.

Bookseller Inventory # 011371 ISBN 10: 911172787X ISBN 13: 9789111727877 Used Hardcover First Edition ISBN 10: 0460125389 ISBN 13: 9780460125383 Used Paperback Published by Penguin Books (1955) Used Soft cover First Edition Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Penguin Books, 1955. Soft cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition... UK paperback of the book behind 'The Lady Vanished'. The first Penguin printing. VG overall with very light wear too bottom corners. Language: eng. Book. Bookseller Inventory # 1471788634247 Published by Penguin, UK (1955) Used Paperback Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Penguin, UK, 1955. Paperback. Book Condition: VG-. No Jacket. 190pp. Small stains on covers and slight shelf-wear. Edges of pages discoloured.

The Wheel Spins, published originally in 1937 became a great film success under the title 'The Lady Vanishes'. Size: 12m0. Bookseller Inventory # 002754 Published by Penguin Books (1955) Used Soft cover Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Penguin Books, 1955. Soft cover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. Special Edition. Originally published in 1936, this is the first Penguin Crime edition of this novel, which appeared in 1955, and formed the basis of the Hitchcock film, 'The Lady Vanishes'. This copy is sound & reasonably clean; some marking to front cover, which has lifted away from the binding glue inside but is still well attached to the spine (a slight cosmetic issue only & not apparent externally). Spine is good (slight edge wear), rear cover good (faint circular mark but not especially noticeable). A small block of pages (9-24) has become detached but remains neatly in place.

Bookseller Inventory # 5038 Published by Books, Inc., New York (1945) Used Hardcover Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Books, Inc., New York, 1945. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. The Wheel Spins was originally printed in 1936. It was made into a film in 1938 by Alfred Hitchcok and retitled "The Lady Vanishes". This copy is Books, Inc. Edition 1st Priniting, September, 1945. Published by special arrangement with Harper & Brothers. There is substantial rubbinig to the binding the and the gilt lettering on the spine is fading. vi, 286 p. Text is unmarked by underlining or notations. Size: 20 cm tall. Bookseller Inventory # 111552 Published by Penguin Books, London (1955) Used Soft cover Published by Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex (1955) Used Mass Market Paperback Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1955. Mass Market Paperback.

Book Condition: Very Good. NA (illustrator). First Paper. 4.25" x 7". This particular edition was listed as not for sale in the U.S.A. This is one of ten books to appear together in Penguins to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Collins Crime Club. It is in very good condition for its age. There is a tiny price tag on the front cover and the back; a shallow crease at the top front point, and a small stamp near the top of the back cover. Spine is in great shape. EXTREMELY SCARCE!!! 4.25 " x 7". No. Bookseller Inventory # 11447 Published by Popular Library (1942) Used Soft cover Published by Books, Inc., New York (1945) Used Hardcover First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Books, Inc., New York, 1945. Cloth. Book Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Minus. First Printing Thus. First Printing (thus) hardcover. This book is the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes".

Dust jacket in removable mylar cover bears light to moderate scuffing/soiling, with extensive bumping/rubbing/tiny chips to corners and edges. Black covers underneath are clean with clean gilt and general mild corner and edge bumping. Text block edges and inside page margins are toned, previous owner's name and address in pen on verso ffep. Pages are generally clean and unmarked, with a couple areas of faint fore-edge margin soiling. The binding is relaxed, especially at the hinges, but remains solid with all parts intact and attached. We ship same or next business day, great customer service! Size: 8vo. Bookseller Inventory # 40407 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Harper & brothers, New York, 1936. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fair. No Jacket. NA (illustrator). 1st Edition. 813 pages. The book has a lot of good reading, but it also has some flaws. The page block is very solid. The spine is mostly good, but has a little wear at the gutter at the base. All 4 points are a bit worn.

There is an owners' inscription inside and, at the back, some childish drawing; all in pencil. There is separation by the title page, with some of the webbing visible. And the back hinge is a bit cracked. No. Bookseller Inventory # 117513 Vintage Novels: The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White Tuesday, November 25, 2014 The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White I'd never heard of Ethel Lina White until early last year, on holiday in Tasmania with my lovely and talented friend, Christina of Baehrly Reading . On a previous Tasmanian holiday, Christina had introduced me to what became a favourite vintage movie, Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes . This time, I found Christina reading a thriller picked up on a whim on discount at a local newsagency--Ethel Lina White's 1933 novel Some Must Watch . That was a brilliant, taut little suspense thriller with an understated but unmistakeable Christian theme. Quite impressed with this book, Christina looked up the author to discover that it was one of her novels, The Wheel Spins , which had been filmed as The Lady Vanishes.

When, therefore, Christina alerted me to the presence of some other Ethel Lina White books on Project Gutenberg Australia , I rushed off and quickly read The Wheel Spins. It was great. Like the movie made from it, The Wheel Spins tells the story of a young woman, Iris Carr in the novel, a socialite on holiday in an out-of-the-way corner of Eastern Europe, who on the train home makes the acquaintance of a sprightly English governess, only to wake from a nap to find that the lady has (ahem) vanished, apparently without a trace! When everyone on the train, from the fellow-passengers sitting next to Miss Froy in the same compartment to passing acquaintances in the dining-car, claim never to have heard of or even seen Miss Froy, Iris finds herself in the middle of a nightmare. Is Miss Froy real, the victim of a far-reaching conspiracy? Or is Iris herself going mad? I thoroughly enjoyed The Wheel Spins. It probably suffered in my estimation from having been spoiled by the film--some of the suspense was lost, and I think the film was a bit wittier, and ended on a higher note.

On the other hand, the book includes a fair bit of background material which took the story from enjoyable to memorable. One of those things is the far richer characterisation, including several characters who never made it into the movie at all, like the vicar and his wife. Best of all are Miss Froy's elderly parents (and their dog, Sock), who throughout the plot's vicissitudes wait and look forward to their beloved daughter's safe return--interludes that might not add much to the plot, but certainly demonstrate what is at stake in this middle-aged governess's safe return to her home. A.K.A. I might add an interlude of my own here and say that recently, having read and enjoyed Rachel Heffington's classic-style cozy murder mystery Anon, Sir, Anon , I formulated a bit of a theology of cozy mysteries: One of the things that struck me about Anon, Sir, Anon was how much the understated Christianity contributed to the coziness of the setting--God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world.

Ethel Lina White's book Some Must Watch was a bit less cozy and a bit more terrifying, but in that book the terror stemmed from the villain's ruthless Darwinist worldview (and yes, it's a book about eugenics, in 1933) while the heroine represented faith in God and Providence. And, in Anon, Sir, Anon, there's a definite sense of sin about the murder and danger that occurs. So that's what I like about both that book and Ethel Lina White's: they aren't just mysteries being solved by plucky young girls who are targeted by sinister killers. They're about the incursion of a cruel and fiendish force upon the order, kindness, and gentleness of Christendom. That's what makes them both cozy, and that's what makes them both suspenseful. This expression of the antithesis between good and evil comes out loud and clear in The Wheel Spins.

Like so many of the novels written by Christians in the early 1900s, it eulogises the passing of the first Christendom: "They're part of an England that is passing away," Miss Froy says of two fellow-travellers who remind one of Castle Gay 's Aunt Harriet. "Well-bred privileged people, who live in big houses, and don't spend their income. I'm rather sorry they're dying out...I feel that nice leisured people stand for much that is good. Tradition, charity, national prestige." But perhaps my favourite thing about The Wheel Spins was the character arc of its heroine, whose lonely ordeal as Miss Froy's champion transforms her from a shallow and self-centred youngster into someone who is willing to defy the whole world for the sake of someone she has learned to care about, other than herself. In Ethel Lina White, I feel that I've discovered a real treasure--an author of good, gripping suspense fiction that will actually build you up morally and spiritually, instead of tearing you down. I thoroughly enjoyed The Wheel Spins and recommend it to everyone in need of a paperback pick-me-up.

RosettaBooks The Wheel Spins 3.81 Best known as the basis for Alfred HItchcock’s classic film The Lady Vanishes, Ethel White’s book The Wheel Spins is a gripping and accomplished work in its own right. The plot is deceptively simple and the premise is classic: a woman meets a mysterious stranger during a long railway journey. It’s easy to see in this novel what Hitchcock found so compelling and so well-suited to his particular brand of filmmaking. The protagonist of the story is Iris Carr, who suffers a blackout just before boarding a train that is traveling across Europe to London. On board the train, the still-woozy Iris befriends a certain Mrs. Froy, a fellow Englishwoman who is perhaps a bit eccentric but seems to be for the most part agreeable and benign. Mrs. Froy is the "vanishing lady" of Hitchcock’s title, and it is Mrs. Froy who mysteriously disappears while Iris is napping. Her inexplicable departure throws Iris into a mind-bending mystery that will make her alternately question her sanity and the designs of the people around her. When Iris asks about Mrs.

Froy, everyone on board the train denies ever having seen the old woman. Although Iris could perhaps be swayed due to the knock on her head that Mrs. Froy was merely a vivid hallucination, a few stray details suggest that something more sinister is happening, and Iris resolves to get to the bottom of the mystery. s gripping as the plot is, the novel’s true strength is the masterful way in which White builds a brooding and ominous atmosphere that hangs over even the most seemingly ordinary scenes. White has been compared to Edgar Allan Poe, although White also has much in common with Wilkie Collins, Patricia Highsmith, and Mary Higgins Clark. Unlike traditional mystery stories or whodunits which generally open with a crime, White’s novels trade on our anticipation of a future transgression and the eventual explanation of unusual events. The Spiral Staircase "Adept at laying one icy finger on the back of your neck" – Spectator Helen Capel is hired as a live-in lady-help to the Warren family in the countryside. She enjoys the eccentric household and her duties, but her peaceful and simple life is soon disturbed by a series of mysterious murders in the isolated community.

As Helen’s employer, Professor Sebastian Warren, battens down the hatches and locks all the doors of their remote country house, the eight residents begin to feel safe. But somewhere out there lurks a murderer of young girls. As the murders crawl closer to home, Helen starts to wonder if there really is safety in numbers—and what happens when those numbers start to dwindle? The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White | Spokenworld Audio The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White / Digital Album Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Buy Now about Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 2006. The Oscar nominated actress BRENDA BLETHYN reads a new six-part abridgement of Ethel Lina White’s classic 1930’s railway thriller THE LADY VANISHES. Best known as the basis for Hitchcock´s classic early film, The Lady Vanishes, Ethel Lina White´s novel “The Wheel Spins” (later renamed as “The Lady Vanishes” following the popularity of Hitchcock’s movie) is a gripping and accomplished work in its own right.

The plot is deceptively simple, and the premise - a woman meets an engaging stranger during a long railway journey who later disappears leading to mystery and deception - is classic. It´s easy to see why Hitchcock found this novel so compelling and so well-suited to his particular brand of filmmaking. Read by one of the UK’s most popular actresses, the twice Oscar nominated Brenda Blethyn, “The Lady Vanishes” promises to take you on a thrilling journey – asking not just who-dunnit, but why and how! ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ethel Lina White was born in Monmouthshire, England, in 1876. She was employed for some years by the government at the Ministry of Pensions in London and began writing fiction in the 1920s, making her debut with the mainstream novel The Wish-Bone (1927). After two more mainstream novels, Twill Soon Be Dark (1929) and The Eternal Journey (1930), she moved into the thriller and mystery genres, where her popularity flourished for the next 14 years.

Starting with Put out the Light (aka Sinister Light, 1931) and Fear Stalks the Village (1932), she began building a reputation as a brilliant storyteller in the field. Her third novel, Some Must Watch (1933), about a mute servant in a household that is stalked by a killer, later caught the eye of Hollywood producers, but it was her sixth novel, following The First Time He Died and Wax (both 1935), that first brought White to the screen, in rather convoluted fashion. In 1936, she published The Wheel Spins, which was licensed by Gaumont British studios, to be made into a movie by director Roy William Neill, under the title Lost Lady. A disastrous attempt at shooting location footage in Central Europe, however, led to a shelving of the project for a year, at which time it fell into the hands of Alfred Hitchcock. The director was normally loathe to take on projects that had already been in the hands of others, but the story was too tempting. The result was The Lady Vanishes (1938), which is usually regarded as the pinnacle of Hitchcock's British period.

The novel told the story of an innocent elderly English governess, working in the household of the royal family of a small European country, who chances to spot the leader of that country in a place that, officially, he isn't supposed to be anywhere near; as we later learn, this is information that could jeopardize his control of the country. The woman is kidnapped as a result, and nearly killed, but for the intervention of a young Englishwoman. The screenplay to the Hitchcock movie, authored by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, added elements of espionage to the plot, but retained the basic threat to the young heroine. Hitchcock's own analysis of White's plot brought it back to its modern origins, the story of the Vanishing Lady, which dated from the Paris Exposition of the 1880s. White wrote eight more thrillers, ending with They See in Darkness (1944), which was published in the year of her death, at age 68. Curiously, there was a flurry of film activity involving her books around the time of her death.

Her 1942 novel Midnight House (aka Her Heart in Her Throat) was picked up by Paramount Pictures and producer John Houseman, who were looking for a vehicle with which director Lewis Allen and leading lady Gail Russell could follow up their 1944 triumph The Uninvited -- the resulting film was titled The Unseen (1945), based on a screenplay co-authored by Raymond Chandler. Around that same time, director Robert Siodmak, working very much in a Hitchcock-like mode, brought Some Must Watch to the screen as The Spiral Staircase, starring Dorothy McGuire. White is primarily remembered today by mystery buffs -- both The Lady Vanishes and The Spiral Staircase were remade in the 1970s without too much success. ABOUT THE BOOK The plot is deceptively simple, and the premise-a woman meets a mysterious stranger during a long railway journey-is classic. It's easy to see why Hitchcock found this novel so compelling and so well-suited to his particular brand of filmmaking. The protagonist of the story is a young woman named Iris Carr, who suffers a blackout just before she is to board her train for a railway journey across Europe to London.

It is an ominous beginning to what will be a very disturbing trip. On board, the still-woozy Iris befriends Miss Froy, a fellow Englishwoman who is a little eccentric, but who seems mostly agreeable and benign. Miss Froy is the "Vanishing Lady" of Hitchcock's title, and she mysteriously disappears while Iris is napping. Her inexplicable departure throws Iris into a mind-bending mystery that will make her alternately question her sanity and the designs of the people around her. For when she asks about the vanished Miss Froy, everyone on board the train adamantly denies ever having seen the woman. Although Iris is tempted to believe that Miss Froy must have been merely a vivid hallucination, perhaps an aftereffect of sunstroke, a few stray, inexplicable details suggest that something much more sinister may be going on.... Gripping as the plot is, the novel's true strength is the masterful way in which White subtly builds tension and creates a brooding, ominous atmosphere that hangs over even the most ordinary scenes. She has, therefore, been compared to Edgar Allan Poe, although White also has much in common with Wilkie Collins, Patricia Highsmith and Mary Higgins Clark.

Unlike traditional mystery stories or whodunits, which generally open with a crime, White's novel trades on our anticipation of a future transgression and the eventual explanation of unusual events. As a result, The Lady Vanishes/The Wheel Spins is charged with an electric atmosphere of expectancy that keeps the reader captivated from beginning to end. Hitchcock made the book the basis for his 1938 movie “The Lady Vanishes” – fondly thought of by many Hitchcock fans as his farewell to the British film industry before heading off to Hollywood. The film starred Margaret Lockwood as Iris, May Whitty as the disappearing Miss Froy and Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford, who would go on to co-star as bumbling twits in several other movies. The movie was re-made in 1979 by Anthony Page and starred Elliot Gould, Cybil Shepherd, Angela Lansbury and Arthur Lowe. Sadly this version was not received so well by critics or audiences alike! ABOUT THE READER Brenda Blethyn was born Brenda Bootle on 20th February 1946 in Ramsgate, Kent. She was the youngest of nine children, her father was a mechanical engineer.

Her parents took her to the movies weekly, introducing her to the magic of the cinema. At school she excelled in maths, graduated from technical college and then worked as a secretary and book-keeper in a bank. After the breakdown of her marriage to graphic designer, Alan James Blethyn who she met when they were both working together for British Rail, she decided to give-up her job. Having saved-up enough money she applied to Guildford drama college, for which she was accepted, and from that moment has never looked back. She was 27 at the time and, realising the risk she was taking, didn't tell her parents just in case it didn't work out as she could always go back to shorthand and typing. Obviously Brenda's big risk paid off and after some early stage experience with the Bubble Theatre and at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, she joined the Royal National Theatre in 1975 where she worked with many of the UK's most acclaimed theatre directors.

Her work at the National included Tamburlaine and Bedroom Farce which were both directed by Peter Hall; The Passion and A Midsummer's Night Dream, directed by Bill Bryden; The Beaux Strategem and The Provok'd Wife, directed by Peter Wood; and Tom Stoppard's Dalliance. She then went on to join The Royal Shakespeare Company where her work included Tales From the Vienna Woods and Alan Ayckbourn's Wildest Dream. She has also worked at the Manchester Royal Exchange where she has played Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House and Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday. She has also played Mrs. Chieverly in Oscar Wilde's Ideal Husband. Brenda's British television career started in 1980 when she appeared in the BBC2's playhouse presentation of Mike Leigh's Grown-Ups as Gloria, this was followed in 1981 when she made a guest appearance in the comedy series Yes, Minister alongside Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne. She then gave a couple of classical performances in the BBC Shakespeare series, playing Cordelia in King Lear (1982) directed by Jonathan Miller, alongside Michael Horden's as Lear and Anton Lesser as Edgar.

She then played Joan in Henry VI, Part One (1983) alongside Peter Benson as Henry VI. In 1983 Brenda played Angela Foley in the first of the television adaptations of the PD James novels, Death of an Expert Witness in which Roy Marsden played Commander Adam Dalgliesh; and in 1984 she moved into comedy when she played the part of Alison Little in Chance in a Million with Simon Callow and Bill Pertwee. In the same year she made a number of guest appearances in Alas Smith and Jones with Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones; and Who Dares Wins with Julia Hills and Rory McGrath. Her next comedy role came in the form of The Labours of Erica with Clive Merrison in 1989. Brenda then moved into the big screen making two films during the period between 1990 and 1992, the first being the Jim Henson film of Roald Dahl's The Witches in which she played Mrs. Jenkins, other parts were played by Rowan Atkinson, Jane Horrocks and Anjelica Huston (1990).

The second film was the Robert Redford movie A River Runs Through It in which she played Brad Pitt's mother, Mrs. Maclean. In 1993 she returned to television when she played the part of Gwen in the TV drama The Bullion Boys alongside Tim Pigott-Smith and David Jason; and the part of Margaret Amir in the mini-series The Buddha of Suburbia with Naveen Andrews as her son Karim. In 1994 Brenda played the terrifically funny character Miriam Dervish in the comedy series Outside Edge with a cast which included Josie Lawrence, Robert Dawes, Timothy Spall and Michael Jayston. This earned her Best Comedy Actress in the 1994 British Comedy Awards but also saw the end of Brenda's television appearances for the next five years as she was to finally to well and truely make her name in the world of film. In 1996 Brenda was cast as Cynthia Rose Purley in Mike Leigh's Secret's and Lies for which she won a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Film Award, and was nominated for an Oscar. At the time Brenda's comments about the role were "I was a novice as far as film was concerned.

I'd been working over 20 years at the time, and then all that happened". In 1997 she returned to the screen to play Shirley in Michael Frayn's comedy Remember Me? with Imelda Staunton and Robert Lindsay. In 1998 she appeared in five films - with Julie Walters and Kris Kristofferson in the British comedy/ drama Girls' Night; the Australian drama In the Winter Dark with Ray Barrett; the Irish drama Night Train with John Hurt and Lorcan Cranitch; the romance Music From Another Room with Jude Law; and finally the role of Mari Hoff, which won her another Oscar nomination, in Little Voice with Jane Horrocks and Michael Caine. In 1999 Brenda made a brief return to television in RKO 281 but then swiftly returned to the big screen in Keeping Time with Peter Fonda. Her biggest film in 2000 was Saving Grace in which she played Grace Trevethyn (right), a wealthy widow who discovers that she is £300,000 in debt, thanks to her late husband's failed business ventures, but with the help of her handyman they come up with a plan to grow a marijuana in her greenhouse.

In 2001 she appeared as Mrs Delaney in On the Nose with Dan Ackroyd and Robbie Coltrane; as Julia Montgomery in Daddy and Them with Billy Bob Thornton, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ben Affleck; as Jane Marks in Lovely and Amazing; as Mrs. Louise Tutwiler in Yellow Bird; and The Sleeping Dictionary with Bob Hoskins, which she filmed in Malaysia. She also appeared on television as Auguste Van Pels in Anne Frank with Ben Kingsley. In 2002 she will be appearing in Pumpkin as Judy Romanoff; and Plots with a View as Betty Rhys-Jones alongside Alfred Molina, Christopher Walken and Lee Evans. She will also be supplying the voice of Mrs. Fairgood in The Wild Thornberry's. In the 1990 Brenda returned to the stage when she appeared on Broadway in Alan Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends for which she won the Theater World Award for Outstanding New Talent; she also won Best Supporting Actress in the British Drama Awards for her performance in Neil Dunn’s Steaming in 1996. She was also nominated for an Olivier Award for Michael Blakemore's Benefactors at the Vaudeville Theatre.

In 1997 she appeared at the Donmar Warehouse in Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus directed by Sam Mendes. Brenda shares her home with long-time boyfriend Michael Mayhew, an art director for the England's National Theatre, which is where the two met. He tries to join her on movie sets when he can. They live in the same "unfashionable" southeast London neighborhood that she moved to five years ago, and she still plans to keep a foot in the theatre as it is her first love. Brenda is an ambassador for the Prince's Trust charity. In October 2002 Brenda returned to the West End when she appeared at The Strand Theatre in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs Warren’s Profession directed by Peter Hall. Brenda played Mrs Warren. In 2002 Brenda played Jewel Phillips in the movie Sonny alongside James Franco and Nicolas Cage. This was followed by Plots With a View in which she played Betty Rhys-Jones. In 2003 she played Aggie Bullard in The Sleeping Dictionary with Bob Hoskins; and Aunt Millie in Blizzard Whoopi Goldberg and Christopher Plummer.

Brenda returned to UK television screens on Monday 17th November 2003 in a new six-part drama series, Between The Sheets. The new series, written by Kay Mellor, followed the sexual intrigues and relationship breakdowns of a group of couples. Hazel (Brenda) and Peter (Alun Armstrong) seem to have the perfect marriage, but Peter has had a string of affairs with women employed at his lap-dancing clubs and Hazel, despairing of a loveless 30-year marriage, announces that she is leaving him on the day of their daughter`s wedding. Elsewhere, Alona Cunningham (Julie Graham) comes home in a seductive mood following a night out celebrating a friend`s divorce, but her partner Paul (Richard Armitage), a probation officer, seems preoccupied by thought of one of his former clients, Tracy Ellis. The series also starred Vinette Robinson, Liz Smith, Gaynor Faye, Robert Glenister and Norman Wisdom. You can read the Radio Times Interview with Brenda by visiting the RT Interview page.

In 2004 Brenda returned to the big screen when she played Polly Cassotto in the Kevin Spacey movie, Beyond The Sea, which is a study of "Mack the Knife" singer Bobby Darin (Spacey) specifically, and his relationship with his wife Sandra Dee (Bosworth). She also appeared as Annette in A Way of Life and in a comedy romance entitled Piccadilly Jim with Hugh Bonneville and Tom Hollander. It was also in 2004 that Brenda returned to British TV screens once more when she appeared in the one-off ITV drama Belonging in which she played middle-aged Jess Copplestone who is left to look after the elderly relatives of her husband Jacob and to make a new life for herself, after he leaves her for a younger woman. The drama also starred Kevin Whately as husband Jacob, Rosemary Harris, Anna Massey and Peter Sallis. In October 2004, Brenda opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre in 'night Mother in which a distraught woman tells her mother that she has come to a critical moment of decision. The play also starred Edie Falco and ran until 9th January 2005.

Brenda's projects in 2005 included On a Clear Day a drama in which she played Joan with Peter Mullen, Ron Cook, Billy Boyd, Shaun Dingwell and Jodhi May; Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Donald Sutherland and Dame Judi Dench; Clubland; Pushers Needed with Maggie Smith and Claire Danes; and the voice of Mama Heffalump in Pooh's Heffalump Movie. credits Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 2006. Written by Ethel Lina White Read by Brenda Blethyn Ethel Lina White (Author of The Lady Vanishes) edit data Ethel Lina White (1876 – 13 August 1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel The Wheel Spins (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes (1938), was based. Born in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1876, White started writing as a child, contributing essays and poems to children's papers.

Later she began to write short stories, but it was some years before she wrote books. She left employment in a government job working for the Ministry of Pensions in order to pursue writing. Her writing was to make her one of the best known crime writers in Britain and the USA during the 1930s and '40s. Her first three works, published between 1927 and 1930, were mainstream novels. Her first crime novel, published in 193 Ethel Lina White (1876 – 13 August 1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel The Wheel Spins (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes (1938), was based. Born in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1876, White started writing as a child, contributing essays and poems to children's papers. Later she began to write short stories, but it was some years before she wrote books. She left employment in a government job working for the Ministry of Pensions in order to pursue writing.

Her writing was to make her one of the best known crime writers in Britain and the USA during the 1930s and '40s. Her first three works, published between 1927 and 1930, were mainstream novels. Her first crime novel, published in 1931, was Put Out the Light. Although she has now faded into obscurity, in her day she was as well known as such writers like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie. She died in London in 1944 aged 68. Her works have enjoyed a revival in recent years with a stage adaptation of The Lady Vanishes touring the UK in 2001 and the BBC broadcast of an abridged version on BBC Radio 4 as well as a TV adaptation by the BBC in 2013. The wheel spins: Amazon.co.uk: Ethel Lina White: Books Ethel Lina White Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

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About three or four of her books have been filmed, two have had more than one adaptation giving us for Some Must Watch (Arcturus Crime Classics) the well known film The Spiral Staircase [DVD] [1945 ], and in the instance of this book most notably The Lady Vanishes [DVD ]. However if you expect this book to be the same as the classic movie, then you will be disappointed. This book as such doesn't fall into the mystery genre because we as the readers can quite clearly see what is happening, this is instead a straight thriller with great tension and suspense, indeed we can see that that is why Hitchcock took up the project to make a version of this, as the project had already been abandoned. White brings the character of Iris Carr to life with startling clarity, we really can get to grips with the psychology of her, and we can feel for her as people deny ever seeing the governess, Miss Froy.

Read more › The Wheel Spins by Ethel White · OverDrive: eBooks, audiobooks and videos for libraries Fiction Mystery Thriller Best known as the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's classic film The Lady Vanishes, Ethel White's book The Wheel Spins is a gripping and accomplished work in its own right. The plot is deceptively simple and the premise is classic: a woman meets a mysterious stranger during a long railway journey. It's easy to see in this novel what Hitchcock found so compelling and so well-suited to his particular brand of filmmaking. The protagonist of the story is Iris Carr, who suffers a blackout just before boarding a train that is traveling across Europe to London. On board the train, the still-woozy Iris befriends a certain Mrs. Froy, a fellow Englishwoman who is perhaps a bit eccentric but seems to be for the most part agreeable and benign. Mrs. Froy is the "vanishing lady" of Hitchcock's title, and it is Mrs. Froy who mysteriously disappears while Iris is napping. Her inexplicable departure throws Iris into a mind-bending mystery that will make her alternately question her sanity and the designs of the people around her. When Iris asks about Mrs.

Froy, everyone on board the train denies ever having seen the old woman. Although Iris could perhaps be swayed due to the knock on her head that Mrs. Froy was merely a vivid hallucination, a few stray details suggest that something more sinister is happening, and Iris resolves to get to the bottom of the mystery. As gripping as the plot is, the novel's true strength is the masterful way in which White builds a brooding and ominous atmosphere that hangs over even the most seemingly ordinary scenes. White has been compared to Edgar Allan Poe, although White also has much in common with Wilkie Collins, Patricia Highsmith, and Mary Higgins Clark. Unlike traditional mystery stories or whodunits which generally open with a crime, White's novels trade on our anticipation of a future transgression and the eventual explanation of unusual events. United States, Singapore, Canada, Australia Format Adobe PDF eBook 884.1 KB Adobe EPUB eBook 1.8 MB Ethel White (Author) Novelist and short story writer Ethel White was born in Great Britain. After authoring several unsuccessful novels, she began writing suspense and evidenced great talent for it. Her novel The Spiral Staircase was made into a film by director Rob...

The Wheel Spins (RosettaBooks Into Film Book 9) eBook: Ethel Lina White: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store By M. Dowden HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 18 Mar. 2013 Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase After watching the latest adaptation of this on tv I thought it was high time I re-read the book. Finding I didn't have a copy on my shelves I was happily relieved to find this kindle version available. Ethel Lina White was a popular and successful writer in her day, but for some unknown reason since her death her books have become neglected, although now people are starting to re-discover her again. About three or four of her books have been filmed, two have had more than one adaptation giving us for Some Must Watch (Arcturus Crime Classics) the well known film The Spiral Staircase [DVD] [1945 ], and in the instance of this book most notably The Lady Vanishes [DVD ]. However if you expect this book to be the same as the classic movie, then you will be disappointed.

This book as such doesn't fall into the mystery genre because we as the readers can quite clearly see what is happening, this is instead a straight thriller with great tension and suspense, indeed we can see that that is why Hitchcock took up the project to make a version of this, as the project had already been abandoned. White brings the character of Iris Carr to life with startling clarity, we really can get to grips with the psychology of her, and we can feel for her as people deny ever seeing the governess, Miss Froy. Read more › Ethel Lina White (Author of The Lady Vanishes) edit data Ethel Lina White (1876 – 13 August 1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel The Wheel Spins (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes (1938), was based. Born in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1876, White started writing as a child, contributing essays and poems to children's papers. Later she began to write short stories, but it was some years before she wrote books.

She left employment in a government job working for the Ministry of Pensions in order to pursue writing. Her writing was to make her one of the best known crime writers in Britain and the USA during the 1930s and '40s. Her first three works, published between 1927 and 1930, were mainstream novels. Her first crime novel, published in 193 Ethel Lina White (1876 – 13 August 1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel The Wheel Spins (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes (1938), was based. Born in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1876, White started writing as a child, contributing essays and poems to children's papers. Later she began to write short stories, but it was some years before she wrote books. She left employment in a government job working for the Ministry of Pensions in order to pursue writing. Her writing was to make her one of the best known crime writers in Britain and the USA during the 1930s and '40s.

Her first three works, published between 1927 and 1930, were mainstream novels. Her first crime novel, published in 1931, was Put Out the Light. Although she has now faded into obscurity, in her day she was as well known as such writers like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie. She died in London in 1944 aged 68. Her works have enjoyed a revival in recent years with a stage adaptation of The Lady Vanishes touring the UK in 2001 and the BBC broadcast of an abridged version on BBC Radio 4 as well as a TV adaptation by the BBC in 2013.

Question: The Wheel Spins Ethel Lina White basis for what Hitchcock film?
Answer: The Lady Vanishes